Holidays September 11, 2023: facts, traditions, signs

Remembrance Day 9/11 and Emergency Number Day, the first Soviet cut glass was released and the Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko was born – about these and other events of September 11 – in the Athletistic material.

September 11 is the 254th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days left before the end of the year.

What holidays and memorial dates is September 11th?

• 9/11 Memorial Day. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a series of four interrelated suicide attacks carried out in the United States by members of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. The victims of the terrorist attack were 2,977 people (excluding 19 terrorists): 246 passengers and crew of the aircraft, 2,606 people in New York, in the buildings of the World Trade Center and on the ground, 125 in Pentagon building. Citizens of the United States and 91 countries were killed.

• Birthday of a faceted glass. As history shows, it was on this day in 1943 that the first Soviet cut glass was produced at the glass factory in Gus-Khrustalny.

• Celebrating kind treatment

• The day of the right hope of the inexplicable

• Spread Your Bed Day in the USA

• Hot Cross Bun Day in the USA

• Emergency Call Day in the USA. The 911 telephone service is used in the United States for any emergency that requires immediate medical, fire, or police assistance. The first 911 telephone service in the United States began operating on February 16, 1968 in the city of Galeyville, Alabama. The service did not need to respond to its first call – it was created to check the communications of Congressman Thomas Bavill from a nearby police station and only required a “Hello” signal response.

• Catalonia Day in Spain. Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, famous for its crowded beaches in the Costa Brava tourist area and ski resorts in the Pyrenees. The community’s capital, Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ has gained worldwide fame thanks to the many works of the Art Nouveau architect Antoni Gaudi.

• Teacher’s Day in Argentina

• Patriot Day, Day of Service and Remembrance in the USA

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Before and after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York on September 11, 2001

What happened on September 11

• 1609 – English navigator Henry Hudson discovers the island of Manhattan.

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• 1888 – At the opening of an industrial exhibition in Toronto, the world’s first recording of the human voice is made.

• 1927 – Earthquake on the southern coast of Crimea, causing much destruction from Sevastopol to Feodosia; This earthquake is included in the plot of the novel The Twelve Chairs.

• 1943 – The State Ukrainian Choir named after Mr. Veryovka was created.

• 1943 – The first Soviet cut glass was produced at the glass factory in Gus-Khrustalny.

• 1944 – World War II: American units are the first of the troops of the anti-Hitler coalition countries to enter German territory.

• 2001 – terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Who was born on September 11

• 1816 – Carl Zeiss, German mechanic, founder of the Carl Zeiss optical instrument factory.

• 1862 – O. Henry (real name William Sidney Porter), American writer.

• 1877 – Felix Dzerzhinsky, revolutionary, chairman of the All-Russian People’s Commissariat (OGPU).

• 1894 – Alexander Dovzhenko, Ukrainian Soviet film director, writer, screenwriter.

• 1935 – German Titov, pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR, cosmonaut No. 2, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Town and church holidays

Today, Orthodox believers celebrate the date dedicated to the death of John the Baptist. This is the day on which, according to legend, the tetrarch of Galilee, Herod, ordered the beheading of Saint John the Baptist. It belongs to the list of major holidays and is a day of strict fasting. On September 11, it is forbidden to try not only meat and dairy foods, but also fish.

What holiday is today according to the national calendar?

This day is called Ivan Lenten. People fasted strictly and began to prepare for winter: housewives began to make pickles, owners went to fairs.

On September 11, in some places it is customary to organize a “Turnip Festival”. It was celebrated without song, but with abundant food and food for the poor and travelers. Eating turnips is still forbidden to this day, and fields sown with them must remain undisturbed.

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John the Baptist

Dos and Don’ts of September 11th

• Food cannot be served on a plate

• Do not handle sharp or cutting objects

• You can not cut round objects – vegetables and fruits. Their resemblance to a human head is a bad omen.

• You should not drink alcohol

Signs

• If cranes fly south on Ivan Lenten, there will be a short fall and early snow

• Starlings do not fly for a long time – until the dry autumn

• Flocks of rooks reach in the dark night – for good weather

Name day September 11

Today the name day is celebrated by: Anastasius, Ivan, John.

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Name day September 11

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